The Manchurian Candidate (1962) [PG-13]

Release Date:
October 24, 1962

Original Title:
The Manchurian Candidate

Alternate Titles:
Botschafter der Angst
El Mensajero del miedo
Ruterdame dreper
Sob o Domínio do Mal
The Manchurian Candidate
Κάτω από εναν Αλλον Ηλιο
恐怖分子
谍影迷魂
谍网迷魂
맨츄리안 캔디데이트
맨츄리안 켄디데이트

Genres:
Drama | Thriller

Production Companies:
MC Productions
United Artists

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 16  AU: M  BR: 14  DE: 16  GB: 15  NL: 16  PT: M/14  SE: 15  US: PG-13 

Runtime: 126

When you've seen it all, you'll swear there's never been anything like it!

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

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1998
#67
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2001
#17
100 Years: 100 THRILLS
100 Most Thrilling American Films
2003
#21
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Art Direction:
Philip M. Jefferies

Assistant Art Director:
Philip M. Jefferies

Assistant Camera:
Felix Barlow
Eugene Levitt

Assistant Director:
Joseph C. Behm
David Salven
Read Killgore

Assistant Editor:
Carl Mahakian

Boom Operator:
Bill Flannery

Camera Operator:
John Mehl

Costume Design:
Moss Mabry

Costumer:
Wesley Jeffries

Dialect Coach:
Thom Conroy

Director:
John Frankenheimer

Director of Photography:
Lionel Lindon

Editor:
Ferris Webster

Executive Producer:
Howard W. Koch

Gaffer:
Robert Campbell

Hairstylist:
Mary Westmoreland
Gene Shacove

Makeup Artist:
Jack Freeman
Ron Berkeley
Bernard Ponedel
Dorothy Parkinson

Music Editor:
Richard Carruth

Novel:
Richard Condon

Original Music Composer:
David Amram

Producer:
John Frankenheimer
George Axelrod

Production Assistant:
Gene Martell

Production Design:
Richard Sylbert

Property Master:
Arden Cripe

Props:
Richard Borland
Richard M. Rubin
Gaylin P. Schultz

Screenplay:
George Axelrod

Script Supervisor:
Amalia Wade
Grace Dubray
Mollie Kent

Set Decoration:
George R. Nelson

Set Dresser:
Lucius O. Croxton
John M. Elliot
Seymour Klate
Joseph S. Toldy

Sound Effects Editor:
Del Harris

Sound Mixer:
Joe Edmondson

Special Effects:
A. Paul Pollard

Still Photographer:
Bill Craemer
William Read Woodfield

Stunt Coordinator:
Gordon Doversola
Beau Vanden Ecker
John Indrisano

Stunt Double:
Robert "Buzz" Henry
Al Wyatt Sr.

Stunts:
Joe Gray

Wardrobe Master:
Morris Brown
Ron Talsky
Rose Viebeck

Wardrobe Specialized Technician:
Angela Alexander

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